Multiple Apple IDs and iTMS new DRM

So i have more than one Apple ID with purchases made in iTMS. One older account and one new iCloud account.

I can no longer access my content from my old account. because I'm only able to switch accounts my mac is associated with every 90 days. Switching back and forth between these two accounts is now made really impractical.

Every iTunes account could be independent of your iCloud accounts.
Also you can use each iTunes account with up to 5 Macs, therefore you can share the content between them.

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I guess you can try adding the item you bought with the other account into the other Library, it will prompt you a message and maybe ask you for the password then you authorize it?
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You're computer or iOS device is now locked to a single AppleID for 90 days at a time. You can only change the single allowed account once every 90 days.

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Unlike iOS devices, you can have multiple user accounts on a single Mac each tied to a different iTunes or iCloud account. Make use of that fact.

Yes, there are some particular audio tracks (like free tracks with DRM, etc...) that still use Fairplay DRM. For everything else, download the non-DRM files and combine them into a single iTunes library.

Unlike iOS devices, you can have multiple user accounts on a single Mac each tied to a different iTunes or iCloud account. Make use of that fact.

Yes, there are some particular audio tracks (like free tracks with DRM, etc...) that still use Fairplay DRM. For everything else, download the non-DRM files and combine them into a single iTunes library.

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Mulitple users does not work. Its per computer not per user. I tested this just now.

Its not Fairplay that is the problem. If you go to purchased in iTunes and redownload a song you previously bought. If you purchased it with another account than the one you're computer is associated with, you get a pop up stating the fact that you can only change accounts once every 90 days. If you already done this once, you cant change accounts until the cooldown period is over. And as a result you are denied the download.

One thing that might work is a virtual machine... but jeez... I'm the owner of both accounts, Apple should have a solution for this.

Can one download past purchases on one iTunes account but still freely switch between other iTunes accounts so long as one does not download past purchases in the other accounts? I have three Apple ID's, one for the US, one for Japan, and one for Canada, but 99% of my content is from the US store. From the US account I often watch from the Cloud or download past purchases, but I occasionally switch to the Japanese or Canadian store to buy new content that is not in the US store. Would this change in policy affect me in any way? I currently have all my purchases combined in one giant library anyway, since I had to strip the DRM from them to be able to watch them on my Roku box (I can't use an Apple TV since I still don't have an HDTV), but I would still be very sad if I accidentally locked myself out of downloading past purchases on my US account, since that's where almost all of my content is.

That aside, this policy makes little sense to me. Mostly because many computers are multi-user and it makes sense that different users would have their own accounts so... huh?

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